The Girl Who Was Death
Release Date  1986
Original Publisher  Stephen Preston (UK)
Min. Hardware  ZX-Spectrum 48K
Language  English
Genre  Adventure Game: Text/Illustrated
Max. Players  1
Original Price  £6.50
Original Price according to SPOT/SPEX  5.50
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Inspirations  The Prisoner (TV show) from Incorporated Television Company (UK)
Average mag. score  78.00% (1 reviews)
Martijn's WoS score  80% (12 votes)

Authors/Contributors
     Stephen Preston (UK) - ?

Remarks
     Initially released through the Prisoner Appreciation Society, Six of One.
"This adventure is probably my best achievement and was actually written over 18 months without much break. The game got so large that it had to be divided into two parts, with a data loader allowing the user to bring his time used and inventory over from part 1. Originally each part was on either side of a cassette. Overall the game added up to something like 92K of data, huge at the time! The game was positively reviewed by a couple of magazines at the time, but the greatest thing for me was beating the Scott Adams score for his latest adventure - for it was Adventureland on the Vic 20 (owned by Gareth Davies!) back in 1981 that first introduced me to the concept of the adventure game, one which I found thoroughly exciting. Looking back, the game could have been a lot better. It is linear in its strategy, and follows the adventure of the Prisoner episode it is based on very strictly. As such it is atmospheric and faithful, but loses flexibility and mystery. The input syntax is also a little limiting. Despite all this, it retain a lot of charm and proved popular with fans of the series."

Main File Downloads
     FilenameReleaseMachineSchemeLanguageComments
 GirlWhoWasDeathThe(different).tzx.zipOriginalZX-Spectrum 48K(Unspecified custom loader)English - (different)
GirlWhoWasDeathThe.tzx.zipOriginalZX-Spectrum 48K(None)English
 GirlWhoWasDeathThePart1.z80.zipOriginalZX-Spectrum 48K(???)English - part 1
 GirlWhoWasDeathThePart2.z80.zipOriginalZX-Spectrum 48K(???)English - part 2
 GirlWhoWasDeathThePart2loaded.z80.zipOriginalZX-Spectrum 48K(???)English - part 2loaded

Additional File Downloads
     FilenameSizeReleaseTypeLanguageComments
     GirlWhoWasDeathThe.scr6,912OriginalLoading screen
     GirlWhoWasDeathThe_2.scr6,912OriginalLoading screen
     GirlWhoWasDeathThe.gif4,292OriginalRunning screen
     GirlWhoWasDeathThe.jpg55,116OriginalInlay - Front
     GirlWhoWasDeathThe.txt3,343OriginalInstructionsEnglish
     GirlWhoWasDeathThe.jpg113,014OriginalGame map
     GirlWhoWasDeathThe_DeletedScene-FairgroundMusic.z80.zip2,647OriginalGame additional material
     GirlWhoWasDeathThe_In-gamePictures.z80.zip22,176OriginalGame additional material
     GirlWhoWasDeathThe_UnusedLoadingScreen.gif4,780OriginalGame additional material
     GirlWhoWasDeathThe_UnusedLoadingScreen.scr6,912OriginalGame additional material
     girlwhowasdeath.zip0OriginalRZX playback file - Recorded by Paul E. Collins (with rollback)

Magazine Reviews
     Crashissue v.1 #30-1986/Julpage 78- Review: 78%
     Your Sinclairissue #12-1986/Decpage 83- Review

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